Sunday, September 8, 2013

I seriously don't know how my hair is growing so fast! I thought growing 6 inches during pregnancy was fast, but since March, my hair has grown 4 1/2 inches! It is now 48 1/2 inches long, which has me an inch and a half away from the longest my hair ever was in 2005 here. I did have breakage and my ends thinned when I used a curling iron for a period of time a few months ago, but overall, my hair is still very healthy and full.

For new readers, I haven't cut my hair in about 14 years (Dec 99). I don't even trim it at ALL. My hair is my glory, so why would I want to cut it off? I've found that women who cut their hair have split ends, but if you let your hair be its natural self, it will take care of itself. If you blowdry, use products and heat, you will thin your hair and suffer breakage and split ends. You can read my hair story here and go here for my Hair Care 101.

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Bev,Your hair is GORGEOUS!! My little girl (she's 7) loved it too! I'm wondering if you follow any sort of healthy eating plan to get your hair to grow so quickly and if you do, what is it? Your are right, your hair is definitely your glory!

Well, 80% of what I eat is healthy but I do eat about 20% junk and fast food LOL! =0 I don't eat a lot of protein and I've always been that way. Don't get me wrong, I like meat but I tend to eat more protein sources like eggs, peanut butter, avocados, fish and cheese. I'm a Dairy Queen - I love milk and cheese!! I eat a lot of grains, so I would say my "diet" is more aligned with the Mediterranean diet. I've found if I have too much protein, my hair starts falling out, looks dull and lifeless and my skin breaks out. I drink a lot of water - 9-12 cups a day.

The only times in my life when I didn't let my hair air-dry, but used a blowdryer - it woudl break off and not grow. However, I did use heat and still get my hair to grow, like when I used to curl my hair with hot rollers a lot years ago, my hair grew long and healthy, though I did have a lot of split ends then. The blow-dryer to me is the most common cause of damaged, shortened hair that I know of. I know that perms also ruin your hair, making it thin, fragile, straw-looking and you will lose a lot of hair.

I did pray on my hair after I lost 20 inches due to perms and God let it grow back and helped my ends be thicker instead of stringy like they were before. I do pray on my hair now that God helps it look nice, even when I use heat, I pray he protects it!! God cares about everything about us, even our hair, so prayer is key to what you want your hair to be! As my hair keeps growing and getting harder to deal with, I'm like "Ok God, how long will it get?" Evidently, he wants me to have long, long hair and I will try my best to cherish what He is giving me. It is a testimony to the world (and angels) that I'm submissive to my head - my husband. When you look at it that way and deny the fleshly temptations to be like everyone else, you find that letting your hair go uncut is actually a sacrifice to the Lord, not just a sign of submission to your husband.

Since I'm on the topic, up until World War I, long, uncut hair was the NORM in the world! Women had long hair throughout all time and it wasn't even though of to cut it off until the first WW. With the first WW, also came women working, smoking and putting on men's clothing - pants. So in reality, women started moving away from being women; being feminine and moved toward the masculinity of the man. THAT has brought us to where we are today in the world - the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world; even for evil.

No idea why I got off into all that lol, but thanks for the comment Tricia!! :)

P.S. Not sure if you notice the "wave" in my hair in different parts or not but I started getting wavy hair when I was pregnant with son last year. I have tight ringlet curls underneath my hair too! It is the craziest thing lol. I started getting a wave in the front on the sides and ends and I have waves on the underneath portion of my hair. I wonder if my hair is going to be wavy/curly instead of straight all over? I had a friend whose hair went very curly after her 3rd baby and is still that way. It is amazing how pregnancy can change our bodies and hair!

DeNiece that is awesome about your hair growing back! :) Thank you for the comment!

What is so funny about cutting hair is, countless people have told me "if you cut it, it will grow longer" and there I am standing with hair past my rear end. I think they must remove their brain before they say that LOL.

How funny I am only 14.5" taller than your hair.I have been growing mt hair out for the past 2 years and I my hair grows really fast and in the past 2 years it has grown 10 inches.I hope mine gets that long,I get tired of only wearing it up.I am willing to try new ways of doing my hair.I am sure I am going to learn a lot from you.Also the one big difference I have made is I no longer dye my hair,and at 51 most women would.My hair is coming back a beautiful silver.

DeNiece - long hair is feminine, so no surprise that most men love it.

Too funny tealady lol! That is awesome about how fast your hair is growing - amazing! I love silver hair on women, it is so beautiful. There is a lady in our church that went silver early and she has long flowing silver hair that is so beautiful.

I love your hair, I am growing out my crowning glory with the help of my boyfriend. He gives me a micro dusting every ten to twelve weeks. Mine is to my elbows now. The amount he takes off is so little you can barely see what he sweeps up, just the very tips to keep them even and remove split ends. No trips to the salon for this lady to let the scissor happy stylist defile my hair in some creepy looking fad style.

The Bible states a woman's hair should not be cut short, not that the ends should never be trimmed. Should a woman who has hair past her hips be chastised, when a woman with straggly hair just past her shoulders be praised? Too many women coming to church with butch hairdos. Supporting abortion and homosexual behavior. I think they need more time in Bible study. Not claiming they are Christians when they are clueless.

Hi Keri, I don't want to debate any further but I do believe that the Bible tells us about 3 types of hair in 1 Cor. 11 - cut (shorn), uncut (unshorn) and shaven. Trimming is the same as cutting, it is just a smaller portion that is cut it is still shorn/sheared (cut with scissors). Uncut (unshorn) hair is what is considered right according to the passage. I'm not trying to offend you or be your judge, but stating my beliefs and I don't wish to debate you on those but I thought I would let your comment through to share with you this.

Something to think about on what you said about hair length. I know several women that haven't cut their hair in many years, yet they can't get it to grow past their shoulders. In God's eyes, they are still following his Word - no matter how short their hair is. Black women in particular have a difficult time getting their hair to grow past their shoulders - so do you think they are butch? My ethnicity by nature makes my hair long when uncut but that doesn't make me more holy than my black sisters in the Lord. That is why it is important to not concentrate on length but rather, as God's Word explains - the uncut/unshorn hair, which can be any length depending upon a woman's ethnicity.

Quotes to Ponder

If you’re a friend to all and an enemy to none, then you’re leading no one. - Unknown

The objective in Christian homeschooling is not to teach children how to "deal with the real world." I do not want to teach my children how to merely survive this life. As believers in Christ, we are called to be overcomers! - HE magazine

The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romances, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver, or their eyes. - Oliver Goldsmith

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world. - Charles Spurgeon

In a time of universal deceit, telling the TRUTH, is a revolutionary act . -George Orwell

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Churchill

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

If you take your children to Caesar for their education, you need to stop being surprised when they come home as Romans -Voddie Bauchman

Christian mothers too often neglect their home-centered role for the empty promises of fulfillment in the workplace, while they warehouse their children in daycare centers. Parents send their children to secular schools where God is outlawed, and they allow them to watch trashy movies and listen to vile music—and hang out with those who do the same. After years of training in the ways of rebellion through godless schooling, debauched entertainment, and peer association, Christian parents are somehow surprised when their teenagers rebel, forsaking the God of their fathers.- Philip Lancaster

You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, and training them up in God's fear, and minding the house, and making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts. - Charles Spurgeon

“Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininty, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I’m very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error….”-Tasha Tudor

SECULARISM is a philosophy that claims that there is no God-or that if there is a God, He is irrelevant. HUMANISM essentially says that in the absence of God, humans can and should act as gods by judging, choosing, and defining what is right for themselves. The philosophy pervading the public education system combines these two philosophies into one.-Ken Ham

The true defining situation for a person is what they do when they are alone and don't have to do anything else. What do they do? Do they do frivolous things? That's when you define what you are. -Kevin Rollins, former CEO of DELL

How can there be too many children? That’s like saying there are too many flowers. -Mother Teresa

Fifty-nine modern nations are plagued by the high-tech benefits of birth-control pills. Each of them have waged a cultural war against babies. Each of them suffer below-replacement birthrates. Each of them face potential extinction. But concerns such as national suffering, dangerous international geopolitics and the disappearance of entire nations are matters that would require mature thinking – something that was successfully bred-out of the American people when they accepted the pill as, in the words of Hugh Hefner, the greatest invention of the 20th century. - Geoffrey Botkin

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength. -Corrie ten Boom